Data Sharing

I-T dept to assist food ministry in tracing false beneficiaries of PMGKAY

The income tax department will share data with the Food Ministry to weed out ineligible beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY). Under the PMGKAY, free ration is provided to poor families who do not pay income tax. The government has budgeted Rs 2.03 lakh crore towards PMGKAY in FY26, higher than Rs 1.97 lakh crore in the revised estimates for the current fiscal. In an office order, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) said the Director General of Income Tax (Systems) will be the authority to furnish information to the Joint Secretary Department of Food and Public Distribution (DFPD) in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs. As per the sharing mechanism, DFPD shall furnish the Aadhaar Number or PAN along with the Assessment Year(s) to DGlT (Systems), New Delhi. If the PAN is provided or the provided Aadhaar is linked with PAN, DGIT (Systems), New Delhi shall furnish the response to DFPD regarding the threshold income as per the I-T department ...

Govt to share selected data, maps from PM Gati Shakti with pvt sector: FM

The government on Saturday announced to provide certain data and maps from the PM Gati Shakti portal to the private sector, a decision which could help them optimize last-mile delivery services and develop infrastructure-based applications. PM Gati Shakti national master plan initiative was launched in October 2021 for integrated and planned development of critical infrastructure projects to reduce logistics costs. "For furthering PPPs (public private partnerships) and assisting the private sector in project planning, access to relevant data and maps from the PM Gati Shakti portal will be provided," Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in her Budget speech. Using these data layers like track length details, railway stations, DFC (Dedicated Freight Corridor), Good Sheds, national and state highways/ district layers, MMLPs (Multi Modal Logistics Parks), ware houses, existing airports from different ministries will help private sector to optimize last mile delivery services, ...

Users should have option to opt out of WhatsApp data-sharing policy: NCLAT

Lifts CCI's 5-year ban on company's data-sharing practices in the country

Sebi directs MIIs to adopt uniform policy on data sharing for research

These market infrastructure institutions (MIIs) have been asked to segregate such data into two baskets-one that can be shared with the public and the second that cannot be made public

RBI may give NBFCs access to public tech credit platform for data flow

PTPFC knits data residing in various entities like governments, account aggregators, banks, credit information companies

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta faces EU charges for Digital Markets Act breach

After Apple, the European Commission is preparing to charge Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook for its 'pay or consent' model

Nearby Share: Google rolls out its file sharing application for Windows PCs

Available in beta since March, Nearby Share has been installed by over 1.7 million users and has seen over 50 million transferred files

CCI asks Google to share policies on data sharing, in-app billing

Move based on complaints that tech giant failed to comply with directive on third-party billing

Private sector likely to get limited access to Gati Shakti portal

DPIIT prepares draft framework for data sharing

Petroleum Min inks pact with International Energy Agency on data sharing

The government on Tuesday signed a pact with the Paris-based IEA for strengthening cooperation in the field of data and research and for enhancing global energy security, stability, and sustainability

EU moves closer to new data transfer deal over spying concerns with US

The European Union moved closer to a clinching a revamped deal over transatlantic data transfers aimed at resolving concerns about U.S. spying with a draft decision that confirms comparable safeguards to those in the EU, which has stringent privacy rules. The EU's executive Commission released its draft decision approving the pact Tuesday, which follows a breakthrough preliminary agreement in March between Brussels and Washington to resolve a yearslong battle over the privacy of EU citizens' data that businesses routinely store in the U.S. That breakthrough was hailed by business groups, which said it will provide certainty to thousands of companies, including tech giants like Google and Facebook, sending data between Europe, which has stricter data privacy regulations, and the comparatively lax U.S., which lacks a comprehensive federal privacy law. Frictions over the transfers had raised the prospect that companies might need to keep European data out of the U.S. We are now confid

Not good for govt to share aggregated data: G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant

India's G-20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant on Tuesday pitched for the dissemination of data by the government in a granular form and said that sharing aggregated information is "not good". Addressing the G-20 development working group meeting here, Kant said data is a key aspect to help any country meet her developmental goals and added that India has benefitted from the same. Stressing on the importance of ensuring quality of data, the former civil servant who till recently worked as the chief executive of the government think-tank Niti Aayog made the reference to data aggregation practices by the government. "Government data are provided as aggregates, which is not good. We should break down the aggregation," Kant said. He said many a time, the quality of the data is also very poor and "we need to ensure that the data is de-cluttered, presented in a simplistic way and it is not difficult to navigate". "Quite often in government, we feed garbage and you get garbage and you feed our garbage

Everything shouldn't be hardcoded into data protection Bill: Vaishnaw

But it should provide the foundation over which you should be able to build any other regulation required for a particular sector, the minister said

Google executive warns against sharing of citizen data, even if anonymized

India in February published a draft data policy for public consultation saying all data collected, stored by government ministries and departments will be open and shareable barring exceptions

How can we get data flowing freely among nations with different cyber laws?

Data Free Flow with Trust (DFFT), a proposed guiding principle for international cooperation on data flows, is moving into the implementation phase

Sebi comes out with terms of usage of data for securities market

Apart from the data made available free of cost, data which is chargeable should be appropriately identified as such in public domain: Sebi

Google announces privacy sandbox to limit data sharing for ads on Android

In what seemed like a jibe at Apple's privacy policy, search engine giant said other platforms have bluntly restricted tech used by advertisers and developers

TMS Ep52: Bank privatisation, Covid-19 data, markets and Norovirus

What's the govt's strategy of privatising PSU banks? How will the market perform in December? Are govts transparent with Covid-data? How serious is Norovirus infection? Find all answers here

How has India fared in making Covid-19 data available?

It wasn't until the announcement of nationwide lockdown that the centre and state govts started publishing Covid-updates on websites. Even that has been uneven across states. Here's the real picture

WhatsApp fined $266 mn by Irish regulator over data transparency breaches

The fine comes weeks after Amazon.com Inc. was hit with a record 746 million-euro penalty in Luxembourg, where it has its European base